Russia

Definitions

1. Ellipsis of Russia leather.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, uncountable
2. A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official name: Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991.
   countable, uncountable
3. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
   broadly, countable, historical, uncountable
4. The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917.
   countable, historical, uncountable
5. Kievan Rus; the medieval East Slavic state centered in Kiev.
   countable, dated, historical, uncountable
6. Any of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).
   countable, dated

Equivalents

84 more languages

AfrikaansRusland

አማርኛሩሲያ

العربيةروسيا

Azərbaycan diliRusiyaРусия

БеларускаяРасеяРасія

БългарскиРусия

বাংলারাশিয়া

བོད་སྐད།རྒྱ་སེརཨུ་རུ་སུ

BosanskiNovosibirskRusrušiRusiRùsijaМоскваРусија+ 4 more

CatalàRússia

ČeštinaRusRuskoRusy

CymraegRwsia

DanskRusland

ΕλληνικάΡωσίαΡωσσία

EsperantoRusioRusujo

EestiVenemaa

EuskaraErrusia

فارسیروسیه

SuomiitänaapurikaalimaaRyssäläRyssänmaaTogliattiVenäjä+ 3 more

Vosa VakavitiRusi

GalegoRusia

ગુજરાતીરશિયા

HausaRasha

ʻŌlelo HawaiʻiLukia

עבריתרוסיה

हिन्दीरशियारूस

HrvatskiNovosibirskRusRusirušiRùsijaМоскваРусија+ 4 more

MagyarOroszország

ՀայերենՌուսաստանՌուսիա

Bahasa Indonesianegeri beruang merahRusia

ÍslenskaRússland

ItalianoRussia

日本語ロシア俄羅斯落石露露国露西亜魯国魯西亜+ 5 more

ქართულირუსეთი

Қазақ тіліРесейرەسەي

ភាសាខ្មែររុស្ស៊ី

ಕನ್ನಡರಷ್ಯಾ

한국어-지비노국노서아러시아로국로서아로씨야아라사+ 5 more

KurdîrûsrusîRûsiyaRûsya+ 1 more

КыргызчаОруссия

LatinaRussiaRuthenia

ລາວລັດເຊັຽ

LietuviųRusija

LatviešuKrievija

MalagasyRosia

МакедонскиРусија

മലയാളംറഷ്യ

МонголОросᠣᠷᠤᠰ

मराठीरशिया

Bahasa MelayuRusiaRusyiya

MaltiRussja

မြန်မာရုရှား

नेपालीरसिया

NederlandsRusland

ଓଡ଼ିଆରୁଷିଆ

ਪੰਜਾਬੀਰੂਸ

PolskiMoskwaRosjaWszechruś

پښتوروسيه

PortuguêsRússia

RomânăRusiaРусия

РусскийРоссияРусь

සිංහලරුසියාව

SlovenčinaRusko

SlovenščinaRusija

ShqipRusiRusia

СрпскиNovosibirskRusRusirušiRùsijaМоскваРусија+ 4 more

SvenskaRyssland

KiswahiliUrusi

தமிழ்உருசியாரஷ்யா

తెలుగురష్యా

ТоҷикӣРусия

ไทยรัสเซีย

TürkmençeRussiýa

TagalogRusya

TürkçeNovosibirskRusyaSamaraYekaterinburg+ 1 more

ئۇيغۇرچەروسىيە

УкраїнськаМоскваРашаРосіярусня+ 1 more

اردوروس

O'zbekchaRossiyaРоссия

Tiếng ViệtNgangãNga La Tưnga ngố+ 1 more

YorùbáRọṣia

中文ВурусРоссия俄國 /俄国俄羅斯 /俄罗斯露西亞 /露西亚+ 2 more

繁體中文Вурус

isiZuluiRashiya

Examples

““Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make⟳ it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make⟳ up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow⟳ to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said.”

“Russia is unable to honor its arms delivery commitments to India because of the war in Ukraine, the Indian Air Force⟳ (IAF) said, placing a potential strain⟳ on New Delhi’s relationship with its largest defense supplier as Moscow attempts to ramp up weapons production.”

“Ukraine (“frontier”), the name⟳ formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.”

“Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self.”

“Then there is White Russia and Red Russia, Great Russia and Little Russia, Russia of the Frozen North and Russia of the Far East — a Russia equally dangerous to every one of her neighbours […]”

“Dull Russias will prove⟳ a good selling line for women according to the predictions of certain manufacturers.”

CEFR level